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Have you seen the movie Argo? If you have seen the movie Argo, and are a pilot, you know how unrealistic the scene is with the fleeing airliner near the end of the movie. Though Hollywood pulls some highly impossible stunts, this one is really over the top in terms of how grossly impossible it is, and I’m sure I’m ...

The “softer” side of flying is the human factors side. As advanced as modern aircraft are, pilots are subject to various factors that can cause them to make excellent decisions and judgement calls but sometimes make decisions that can be potentially dangerous. Luckily, illusions pilots experience are well understood and documented. We know when we may experience an illusion. In ...

February 26, 2013Comments Off on Landing and departing at high altitude

I read a post recently asking what is the highest altitude airport you have landed in. This reminded me when I flew into La Paz, Bolivia, landing at El Alto International Airport while on a backpacking trip in South America. It was aboard a Lan Peru Airlines Airbus A319. Though I wasn’t doing my pilot’s license back then, I was ...

The next maneuver, after mastering the short field procedure, is doing so imagining having to clear a 50 foot obstacle on both take off and landing. This is accomplished by imagining that there is a 50 foot obstacle at the end of our runway on the takeoff, and that there is a 50 foot obstacle on the start of our ...

Short field landing and takeoff procedure explained At a certain point, your lessons will be about precision flying after you know the basics. Now my lessons are about more precise flying, not only just about making it down to the ground safely. Recently I was practicing to aim to land at a particular spot on the runway, using different flap ...

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